Summary of SJCCC Council Meeting 7/10 - Joseph Ku

SJCCC Council meeting 7/10/2008

1.Role of Community Council (Joseph Ku)

2.Summary of Monday meeting with advisory board (Li-Peng Chou)

3.Service and Ministry (Yvonne Chou)

4.Meeting with Fr. Brenden McGuire (Li-Peng Chou/Ken Wang)

5.Perspective of SJCCC (Helena Ru)

Business:

1. Celebration of 2000 Jubilee year of St. Paul

Angie suggested having weekly reflection material for faith sharing group and homily theme similar to those years we participated in ¨RENEW〃 program.

Joseph Ku and Angie will work on this and prepare material before next Council meeting.

2. Identify the current leaders in each existing ministry.

We had gone through this last Monday. A few ministries are lacking of leadership now. These are: (1) Marriage Encounter and family support ministry: Irene and Helena will look into this based on Sister Chiang Fan-Huaˇs article in HolyCity and provide their suggestions in August meeting. (2) Bible and Spiritual Book Sale: Irene and George have served in this ministry for a number of years. Irene would like someone can take over, perhpas focus on Bible sale only.

(3)Finance group: current leaders have served in this area for many years. They would like to have replacement. Li-Peng will talk to the newer members in this group to see if they would like to assume the leadership position. (4) Office Secretary in Dioceses Office: Karen has also devoted many years in this office after Katherine Nie. She would like to have a replacement. This is an important liaison position for our community to communicate with Diocesan staff. (5) Senior group leader, Huang Chung-Wen, reported that he also wanted to have replacement, more importantly, he would like transportation support for senior group activity. (6) Evangelization group leader, Liu Ker-Ching, resigned and needs replacement. Weˇll call a gro! up meet ing to identify for new leader for this group. (7) Sacred Heart School needs principal. We hope one of the student parents can assume this position. This is critical for the quality of CM and Chinese education deliver to our youngsters.

3. Near the end of the meeting, an organization issue was raised. In recent years, many faith sharing groups has either diminished or cut loose their relationship with SJCCC. While SJCCC is still being recognized as a Chinese Catholic Community by Bishop, yet it is lacking of resources both financially and leadership to be able to function as a viable entity. Many people still show strong desire in spirituality development, but only individually, not collectively. We need proper guidance and also need more time to think through this issue.
4. Identify major event coordinators in each of the following event, (We did not have time to go through this agenda, wait to next month)

-Christmas Program (including programs during Advent)

-Chinese New Year and Bishop Visit (2/8)

-Easter Program (including programs during Lenten season)

Announcement:

1. Leadership Retreat on 9/6, prefer in Presentation center depending on the availability, or in St. Clare Rectory. Ana Tsai will assist Fr. Olivera on the retreat preparation. We ask all ministry leaders to set this day aside and give yourself a quiet day for recollection.

2. Fr. Hu Kao-Jen SJ, will give one day seminar to us in St. Clare on Saturday, 7/26.

3. Sister maria wang (from China, currently study in Washington State) will visit Bay Area Church during 7/24-7/31. Weˇll invite her to share her testimony to us after 7/27 Sunday Mass.